Many fans understand the relationship between handwriting and calligraphy, and they are in a state of confusion. This article tries to give you a simple analysis, hoping to help you understand the relationship between the two.
All humanities scholarship always begins with practice, or is extracted from practice. Calligraphy is sublimated from practical writing, so writing and calligraphy have a flesh-and-blood connection, without writing there would be no calligraphy art, but there is a clear difference between the two. Writing is a tool for people to remember things and communicate their thoughts. In the long-term practice, it has been found that there are certain elements of beauty in writing, that is, there are certain things that people feel beautiful.
First of all, the formal beauty of Chinese characters, and later discovered some other factors, since then writing and calligraphy have become increasingly differentiated, but the internal connection between each other has always existed; Writing is for practicality, as a tool; Calligraphy lies in the pursuit of beauty and is an art; The limitations of writing sometimes and empty, our country from the seal to the subordinate and the Kai, etc., the periods can not be mixed. The Wei and Jin dynasties were not allowed to use seals or subordinates as official scripts, and traditional characters should not be written today, which is an example. In addition, if the language used in one country or region cannot be transferred to another country or region, this is the limitation of the time and space of the language.
Calligraphy as an art has no such boundaries, because the language of calligraphy art can break the limitations of time and space. Although China now uses simplified italics, as an art, the seal, the subordinate and even the oracle bone inscription and the pottery inscription are still full of vitality, and the line and grass are more common, which transcends the limitations of time.
Some modern calligraphers have repeatedly shown various styles of Chinese characters to some international friends and solicited their ideas. Some people can't answer; Some say that the golden script and cursive script are dynamic; Some say that oracle bone inscriptions have a simple beauty; I feel honest with Gu Li; In the case of Tao inscriptions and some oracle bone inscriptions, they were surprised to think that China had a script to speak; When I saw **, I said that this is simply not Chinese, but going to Tibeto-Burman; It is also said that cursive writing is mostly lacking left, which is very similar to the Indo-European script written from the left, and if it were not for the difference in the structure of the text, it may have been merged long ago; Wait a minute.
This is the artistic language of the instruction method can cross the barrier of the meaning of the text and show its charm, just as we look at the German flower font, feel solemn and gorgeous; Hebrew and Arabic give a simple beauty; The water book is simple; Yi Wen reveals in the simplicity that Xionghun and so on are the same.
Writing is only clear and unambiguous, with little or no personality of the writer; Calligraphy must have personality and express the author's inner feelings at the time. There is no requirement of the times for writing, and calligraphy must have a sense of the times. You may wish to make a brief list below to help you understand the difference between the two more clearly.
Of course, we should also know that many times in history, the relationship between the two is not much different, and many of the famous calligraphy posts that have been handed down are just some codex of influential people at that time.